Nov 30, 1997

Green Day

Nimrod tour

Setlist

Rarity 59%How rare this setlist is: higher when the band digs into songs they rarely play, lower for a night of staples.

Encore

Also on the bill: D Generation

Show tagged: Nimrod tour

Concert poster

Performers

Billie Joe Armstrong - Vocals / Guitar
Mike Dirnt - Bass / Backing Vocals
Tre Cool - Drums

Show notes

Green Day lead singer drives fun at power-packed show
By Michael Deeds
The Idaho Statesman

Shirts, shoes and bras were strewn everywhere. Speakers were overturned. Smashed drums were impaled on bent microphone stands. And a bass guitar was marinating in a pool of beer.

You sort of got the feeling Green Day wasn’t going to do another encore Sunday night.

But if it looked like there had been a party onstage, it was with good reason. The three goofy twentysomethings had just put on one of the best bashes the Bank of America Centre has survived.

The concert started about 20 minutes late after the California-based punk band required extensive searching of all 2,714 fans as they entered. But once things got rolling, it was easy to understand why Green Day wouldn’t let the crowd bring projectiles — even lipstick or ice cubes — into the show.

The concert was more a nutty shindig than a musical performance. Vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong ran wild onstage, bringing multiple personalities along.

Although Green Day is a power trio, Armstrong was the band. Dressed (briefly) in a sport coat and tie, the diminutive 25-year-old attacked the microphone, shouting his lyrics with eyes wide open, mouth agape, cheeks shaking with Richard Nixon abandon.

After setting the tone by urging the crowd to do drugs and get drunk, Armstrong tore into “Nice Guys Finish Last,” off the group’s latest album, Nimrod.

Green Day’s songs quickly blurred together; each was a three-minute, three-chord wonder with a catchy chorus. But it didn’t matter. Armstrong harmonized sweetly with bassist Mike Dirnt, drummer Tre Cool kept the mosh pit in high gear and heads bobbed everywhere.

Armstrong hammed it up constantly, posing like a ballerina while perched high on a stage monitor, using a puppet to get the crowd clapping.

He picked a kid out of the crowd and let him play his guitar. He begged everyone to throw their clothes onstage, then wore shirts on his head.

A steady stream of bodies, Armstrong’s included, surfed on top of the audience.

And somehow in the midst of this madness, Green Day cranked out 90 minutes of punchy singalongs like “Basket Case” and “When I Come Around.”

The group brought a modest club set-up — this venue was larger than most on the tour — and the smaller sound system delivered surprisingly good results in the arena. Most of the time.

Opening act D Generation degenerated, all right, into a blanket of white noise that irritated even the most seasoned punk ears. You got the feeling that if these glam boys weren’t buddies with Green Day they would have been performing in a garage Sunday night.

Performance stats

48th of 60 in 1997

3rd of 4 in Boise

551st of 1157 in USA

34th of 119 of the Nimrod tour

Attendance

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Most played song

Longview 1,138 times

Rarest Songs Played

Prosthetic Head 62 times

The Grouch 86 times

Scattered 146 times

Album distribution

39/Smooth 1

- Going To Pasalacqua

Slappy 2

- Knowledge
- Paper Lanterns

Kerplunk 2

- Welcome To Paradise
- 2000 Light Years Away

Dookie 5

- Chump
- Longview
- Basket Case
- She
- F.O.D.

Insomniac 3

- Geek Stink Breath
- Brain Stew
- Jaded

Nimrod 6

- Nice Guys Finish Last
- Hitchin' A Ride
- The Grouch
- Scattered
- Prosthetic Head
- Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)

Debut distribution

The year each song played here was first played live.

1989 2

1990 1

1991 2

1992 2

1993 2

1994 2

1995 2

1997 6

Green Day @ Bank of America Center (Nov 30, 1997)